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ILLUSTRATED 




A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF 

COLBY COLLEGE 

AND ITS EQUIPMENT 




MEMORIAL HALL 



WATERVILLE, MAINE 



PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE, MDCCCCVII 




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Colby College was incorporated in 1813, being then 
styled The Maine Literary and Theological Institu- 
tion, and was located at Waterville, on the Kennebec River. 
The name was changed to Waterville College in 1821, 
and so it remained until January 23, 1867, when in honor 
of its benefactor, Mr. Gardner Colby, of Boston, it was 
again changed to Colby University. In 1899 Univer- 
sity was changed to College, since which year it has borne 
its present title, Colby College. 

The College, the second oldest in the State, originated 
with the Baptists of the State, and acknowledges with deep 
gratitude the support and interest of this denomination 
in its welfare, for its benefactors have been numerous, and 
to none more than Gardner Colby and Abner Coburn does 
it owe its material welfare. Its intellectual and material 
growth have been greatly developed by the able corps of 
presidents and professors who 
Iiave served the Institution 
from its earliest years, and 
many of whom were educators 
of national renown. 

The instruction of the 
College in all departments 
is broad, catholic, and un- 
^ectarian, and the aim is 
constantly made to give 
sound moral and intellectual 
training, and to make of its 




GARDNER COLBY 



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Students seekers after truth, which alone can give that 
degree of intellectual and spiritual emancipation which 
is the attribute of real culture, and for which its founders 
stood. 

The trustees number thirty-one, serving for a term of 
three years, and represent different religious faiths. Nine 
of this number are chosen from the alumni, one-third 
annually, by the Alumni Association. 

An interesting fact in the history of the College and one 
that attests the broad and tolerant spirit that has always 
characterized its direction was the provision enacted by 
the Maine legislature in 1820, at the behest of its founders, 
to the effect ''that the said corporation shall not make or 
have any rule or by-law requiring that any member of the 
Trustees shall be of any particular religious denomination," 
and further provided that neither the privileges of the 
Institution nor admission be denied to any student on the 
score of his faith or interpretation of the Scriptures. 

The Graduates of the College number 1,292 men (1822- 
1906) and 214 women (1875-1906), a total of 1,506. Of 
this number, 1,066 are still living. 

The wide geographical distribution of Colby graduates 
is seen in the fact that they represent forty-one States and 
Territories and five foreign countries. Naturally enough, 
the State of Maine has contributed the largest number, 
with Massachusetts standing second. 

The present enrolment of the College (1906-07) is two 
hundred and fifty-four, including a Faculty of seventeen. 
The Faculty numbers in its roll eight graduates of the Col- 
lege and nine from other institutions, and most of them 
have had years of training and experience in the institu- 



THE MESSA 
LONSKEE 




ALONG THE RIVER, 
COLBY CAMPUS 



THE TICONIC FALLS, KENNEBEC RIVER 



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tions of higher learning in this country and in Europe: 
as, for example, at Brown, the Johns Hopkins, Harvard, 
and Yale Universities; the Universities of Kiel and Gottin- 
gen, Germany; the Sorbonne, France; and other institu- 
tions. 

LOCATION 

The seat of the College at Waterville could not have 
been better chosen, for it is near the geographical centre 
of the State and upon the main line of the Maine Central 
Railroad, and is easily reached from every direction. In- 
deed, Waterville is a railroad centre, being at the junction 
of the east and w^est branches of the main line, and also 
a terminus of the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington 
Railroad. It is eighty miles north-east of Portland and 
one hundred and ninety-six from Boston. 

Waterville is a thriving and enterprising city of about 
ten thousand inhabitants. It has many of the advantages 
of the city community, yet without the drawbacks and dis- 
tractions of our larger cities. Its founders had an eye to 
the artistic in nature, for they selected a most picturesque 
spot on the charming Kennebec, at the Ticonic Falls. 
Though the city itself is comparatively level, the country 
is rolling and wooded, and is well drained and watered. 
The Messalonskee stream, so much used for boating and 
canoeing in summer, runs through Waterville in a winding 
course, and is a tributary of the Kennebec River, on its 
vvest bank. Another tributary on the east bank of the 
Kennebec, just below Waterville, is the Sebasticook River, 
and at the junction of these two rivers there still stands 
the old block-house — one of the historic curiosities ot the 



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FORT HALIFAX 



State — which Is all 
that remains of old 
Fort Halifax, which 
was built for the pro- 
tection of the settle- 
ments of the English 
in 1754, at the begin- 
ning of the French and 
IndianWar, and which, 
incidentally, served as 
one of the stepping- 
stones of the Arnold 
Expedition of 1755. 

The city has an ex- 
cellent water supply 
of great purity, which 

is piped to the city from China Lake, a distance of about 
ten miles; a sewerage system covering the entire city; 
and an adequate electric light and power system, 
supplied by two electric light companies. Waterville 
is the centre of a group of villages, and these are connected 
with the city by two electric railroads, the Waterville 
& Fairfield and the Waterville & Oakland. The city 
supports two daily newspapers and two weeklies; has 
two national banks, a trust company, and a savings- 
bank, the latter occupying the handsomest block in the 
city. 

A number of large industrial enterprises are located 
in Waterville, engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods, 
pulp and paper, iron, woolens, building materials, and, 
in addition to these, the shops of the Maine Central Rail- 



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road. These afford opportunity for the observation and 
study of the problems of industrial society. 

Waterville has an excellent school system of the various 
grades, including a high school and Coburn Classical Insti- 
tute, the latter a private endowment of the best secondary 
grade, and one of the fitting-schools of Colby. There are 
nine churches, representing eight different denominations; 
and a large modern city hall, containing the offices and de- 
partments of the city government, and a w^ell-appointed 
opera house, with a seating capacity of twelve hundred per- 
sons. The city also has good hotel accommodations, and 
this feature, coupled with the advantages enumerated above 
and the hospitality of its people, have made it a favorite 
place in the State for holding conventions and large gather- 
ings. 

The climate is healthful and invigorating. The surround- 
ing country is beautiful, and is intersected with numerous 
roads, the city itself with wide streets, shaded with stately 
elms and maples, and lined with beautiful homes, giving 
abundant opportunity for delightful walks and drives about 
the city and country. Within a few miles are many lakes 
and ponds, which give ample opportunity for excursions, 
fishing and boating trips, and all the usual recreations of 
summer and winter. 

The Campus of the College, terraced by nature and cov- 
ered with large shade-trees, occupies a tract of twenty-six 
acres of land in the northern part of the city, and is located 
between College Avenue and the west bank of the Kennebec, 
and, rising from the river, extends along the bank about a 
third of a mile. The college buildings stand upon rising 
ground, with ample space assigned to each one, and they 

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CHAPEL WALK, LOOKING SOUTH 

Champlin Hall in left foreground, Memorial Hall seen in distance at end of walk 



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are beautified with well-kept lawns and connected by walks 
shaded by tall and stately elms. Indeed, it may be said 
that in the adornment of the Campus, which is the most 
beautiful in the State, Nature has been assisted by the 
former sons of the College, for it used to be a May-day 




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custom of the students in the fifties and sixties to plant 
trees upon the Campus, and this accounts for the beautiful 
willows and locusts as well as the maples and elms that the 
students of today are enjoying. 

The buildings are nine in number; and, in addition to 
these, there are three other college buildings, located on 
College Avenue within two minutes' walk of the Campus. 




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BUILDINGS 



Memorial Hall, the most conspicuous building on the 
Campus and standing at the southern end, is a large struct- 
ure, one hundred and seven by sixty-two feet, somewhat 
irregular in shape, and is built of gray granite, rubble 
finish, with a tower eighty feet high, and contains the Col- 



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MEMORIAL TABLET 



lege Library and the Chapel. It was erected in 1869; and 
the academic atmosphere is given to the exterior of the 
building as well as to its interior, for its walls are dotted 
here and there with class stones or tablets, the gifts of 
successive Junior Classes in the seventies. The Library 
occupies the eastern wing of the building, and is forty- 
four by fifty-four feet and twenty feet high, and is 
arranged in the form of a large reading-room, with a series 
of alcoves and a gallery. The Library contains forty-three 
thousand and five hundred volumes and about twenty 
thousand pamphlets. It is equipped with the card cata- 
logue system, works of reference, and other helps nec- 
essary in a student's library. The Librarian devotes 
considerable attention to those who are investigating 
special topics. The leading periodicals and papers are 
kept on file. In addition to the shelves of books which 
line the walls from floor to ceiling, the room is adorned 
with numerous portraits of Presidents, Professors, and 
others prominently connected with the history of the Col- 



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lege, and in the central place on the floor, near the Libra- 
rian's desk, stands Paul Akers's bust of Milton, the work 
of the noted Maine sculptor. 

The western wing of Memorial Hall is forty by fifty-eight 
feet and two-storied, and upon the first floor is found the 
Chapel and upon the second floor the Hall of the Alumni, 
which gives its name to the building. This hall contains 
the most important collection of works of art owned by the 
College, including portraits of Presidents and Professors 
and benefactors, paintings, bas-reliefs, and casts of the 
most noted sculptures of European galleries, and above all, 
in an appropriate and central niche in the east wall, Martin 
Milmore's marble copy of Thorwaldsen's famous ''Lion 
of Lucerne," reposing above the marble memorial tablet 
upon which are chiselled, in indehble letters, the names of 
those students of the College who in the days of the Civil 
War responded with loyal and unselfish devotion, and gave 
their fives as sacrifices to the call of their country. Lideed, 
Colby stands high in the roll of honor, for the records show 
that more than one-third of her living graduates that were 
eligible for military 
service were in the 
Union Army. The 
College has no more 
tender and loving 
memorial than this 
tribute to its noble 
sons of a former day. 

This is, fittingly, the 
great gathering place 
of the alumni for their 



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annual reunions and for the observance of the festivities 
of Commencement and other college functions. 

In the Chapel belov^ are found several memorials of 
interest to the friends of the College. On the w^est wall 
there has been placed a marble memorial tablet, suitably 
inscribed, in mem.ory of Dr. Jeremiah Chaplin, the first 
President of Colby, who served the College with great 
fidelity during the years 1822 to 1833, and who left a num- 







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ber of monuments of his administration, including the two 
college dormitories, the oldest buildings on the Campus. 

Opposite, on the west wall, there is another tablet, in 
bronze, to the memory of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a graduate 
of Colby in the class of 1826, and one of the first martyrs 
to the cause of slavery. On the walls are found large carbon 
photographs, beautifully framed, of Raphael's Sistine Ma- 
donna, Titian's Assumption, Murillo's Holy Family, and 
Westminster Abbey. jg 



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LECTURE ROOM 




CHEMICAL LABORATORY 



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Chemical Hall. A short distance to the south-east of 
Memorial Hall stands Chemical Hall, the most modern 
of the college buildings on the Campus. It was erected 
in 1898, during the administration of President Nathaniel 
Butler, D.D. Its dimensions are one hundred and five by 
seventy-six feet, and it contains the Chemical Department, 




NORTH COLLEGE AND CAMPUS, LOOKING SOUTH 



which occupies the entire first floor and basement, and the 
four class-rooms of the Departments of Philosophy, Latin, 
English, French, and Mathematics, which, together with 
the President's offices and the faculty room, occupy the 
entire second floor. The faculty room is a comfortably 
furnished front room overlooking the Campus, and, accord- 
ing to present intentions, is to be known henceforth as the 
Stearns Room, in honor of a former Trustee of the College. 



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CHAMPLIN 
HALL 





LECTURE ROOM, 
HISTORY 



HISTORICAL 
LIBRARY 




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The Chemical Department has a large laboratory, thirty- 
six by fifty-four feet, used for the work in general chemistry, 
several smaller laboratories for advanced work, storerooms 
and offices, and a large lecture-room, seating one hundred, 
equipped with opera chairs in rising tiers, and all the neces- 
sary appointments for experimental demonstrations and 
illustrative w^ork. 




ALUMNI ATHLETIC FI 



South College, Chaplin Hall, and Champlin Hall. To 
the north of Memorial Hall and in the centre of the 
Campus stand three buildings in a row, facing the west. 
They are the oldest buildings upon the Campus and the 
three links that connect the College of to-day with the 
earliest years of its existence. The northernmost and 
southernmost buildings are known respectively as North 
College, or Chaplin Hall, and South College, both of 



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which were erected in the time of Dr. Chaplin, after whom 
the former was named by a subsequent action of the Board 
of Trustees, and they are still used as student dormitories. 
Midway between the two dormitories stands Recitation 
Hall, a three-story brick building, sixty-five by forty feet, 
which was erected in 1836, though it has since been re- 
modelled and named Champlin Hall in honor of President 




ND GRAND STAND 



James T. ChampHn, D.D., LL.D., the distinguished and 
energetic President of the College during the years J^ST^TS- 
Formerly the Chapel, the Library, and the Department 
of Physics were housed in this building. But for all of 
these separate buildings have since been provided, and the 
building now contains the Departments of Greek and Ger- 
man located on the second floor, and the Department of 
History on the third floor, with recitation-room, oflfice, 



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museum, and Department Library. This library now 
numbers a thousand volumes, and, in addition to the books, 
includes a large collection of maps, photographs, engrav- 
ings, lantern slides, stone implements, and other relics, to 
illustrate the courses in History and Politics. 

On the ground floor and to the south of the lobby, in a 
large room neatly furnished, are found the quarters of the 
Young Men's Christian Association, w^hile on the opposite 
side of the lobby are two recreation-rooms used by the 
students and their organizations for various purposes. 

The two dormitories, South College and Chaplin Hall, 
were erected in 1821 and 1822, respectively, and they are 
constructed of brick, four stories high, and the dimensions 
of each are eighty by forty feet. Chaplin Hall was de- 
stroyed by fire in December, 1902, but was immediately 
rebuilt, the interior arrangements and furnishings being 
greatly improved and modernized. These buildings, which 
are locally known, in terms of student endearment, as ''The 
Bricks," are equipped with steam heat, electric Hghts, and 
large sanitary lavatories, and have accommodations for 

sixty students in each 
building. The rooms 
are arranged in suites 
of two each, including 
study and bedroom, 
with closets, and are 
usually occupied by 
two students each. 

Upon the roof of 
South College stands 
the tower containing 




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the college bell. This still chimes out, as in days of old, 
the hours for the opening and closing of recitations. 
.Shannon Observatory, Cohurn Hall, and the Gymnasium. 
At the north end of the Campus stands another group of 
three buildings, the one furthest north being the home of 
the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and known as 




Coburn Hall 



NORTH CAMPUS 

Shannon Observatory 



Gymnasium 



Shannon Observatory and Physical Laboratory, in honor 
of Hon. Richard C. Shannon, LL.D., class of 1862, who 
presented the building to the College in 1889. 

The main laboratory and lecture room, with storerooms 
for apparatus, occupy the entire second floor, while on the 
first floor are several smaller laboratories and class-rooms 
for advanced work, and a dark room for photographic pur- 



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poses. The Physical Laboratory is well supplied with a 
variety of apparatus for illustrating physical laws, some of 
which is indicated in detail in the current catalogue. 

The Observatory in the tower is equipped with a good- 
sized telescope and other necessary instruments for ob- 
servations and instruction in Astronomy. 

There is a workshop in the basement of the building, 
fitted with a power lathe and the tools necessary for me- 
chanical work and for instruction in the mechanical arts. 
The dimensions of this building are sixty-two by thirty- 
six feet, exclusive of the tower, which contains the stair- 
case, the lobbies, and the observatory. 

Cohurn Hall, west of Shannon Observatory, is a square 
slatestone building, with granite trimmings, fifty-six by 
forty-eight feet and forty-one feet high, arranged in three 
stories. It was completed in 1872, during the administra- 
tion of President Champlin, and received its name from 
one of the foremost benefactors of the College, who con- 
tributed a liberal sum toward its construction, Hon. 
Abner Coburn, a former Governor of Maine. 

This building contains tw^o Departments, the Geological, 
which occupies the first floor, and the Biological, which 
occupies the second floor. Both floors are divided into 
classrooms, laboratories, offices, and storerooms, fitted 
with cabinets to suit the convenience of the Departments. 
These cabinets contain the collection of rocks, minerals, 
fossils, and other specimens, models and masks for 
ethnological study, and also the maps, lantern slides, 
photographs, and other apparatus necessary to illustrate 
the courses in Mineralogy, Geology, Paleontology, and 
Physical Geography. The Department of Biology is 

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GYMNASIUM 



further equipped 
with a well-stocked 
herbarium to illus- 
trate the work in 
Botany, and a 
zoological collec- 
tion of specimens 
of vertebrates, in- 
vertebrates, and 
animal tissues and 
organs. The 
Maine Collection 
of Minerals and 
the Hamlin Col- 
lection of Birds of Maine, a collection of shells, and the 
Merrill Collection of Natural History are also preserved 
in this building, the third floor being used in addition to 
the other two for the housing of the museum. 

The Gymnasium, conveniently located, is well furnished 
with apparatus for gymnastic exercises and physical in- 
struction, and is provided with baths, lockers, and a base- 
ball cage, and is heated by steam. 

Just to the north of the Gymnasium is the Alumni Ath- 
letic Field, beautifully graded and ample in size for all 
the college sports. The field is surrounded by a quarter- 
mile cinder track for bicycle races and track athletics, and 
has recently been further improved by the erection of a 
fine modern grand stand, with a seating capacity of seven 
hundred persons, the gift of the alumni. 

Near the Gymnasium and just south of South College 
are located the tennis courts, and these are in constant use 
during the good days of the spring and fall. 

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WOMEN'S COLLEGE 



In 1871 the Trustees voted to admit women to the College 
on the same terms as young men; and in 1890 the Board of 
Trustees adopted a plan proposed by President Small, and 
organized within the College a division for young men and 
a co-ordinate division for young women. In June, 1905, 




FOSS HALL 



it was voted by the Board of Trustees that the Women's 
Division of Colby College be made a separate college; and 
that a joint committee, consisting of the Faculty of Colby 
College and a special committee of Trustees, be appointed 
and directed to make such further separation in the work 



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FOSS HALL 



READING ROOM 





DINING HALL 



STUDENT S 

ROOM 




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and administration of the women's division and the men's 
division of the college as may be done v^ithout increasing 
the expenses of the College; and that a committee be ap- 
pointed to secure funds for the endowment of a women's 
college and to decide upon a name. The conditions for 
entrance remain identical in the two divisions. In class 
organization, rank, prize contests, appointments, and honors, 
the members of the two divisions are treated as independ- 
ently as though they were in distinct institutions. 

Just south of the Campus, on College Avenue, and within 
two minutes' walk, are located the additional buildings, 
used by the Women's Division of the College. 

Foss Hall, the new Women's Dormitory, which was 
given to Colby College by the late Mrs. Eliza Adaline Foss 
Dexter, of Worcester, Mass., and which bears her maiden 
name, is situated on the western side of the avenue. It is 
a handsome building, and the newest and largest of the 
college structures. The corner-stone of the building was 
laid October 6, 1904, and it was completed and opened for 
the reception of students in the following September, 1905, 
during the administration of President Charles L. White, 
D.D. It is a three-story, red brick building, of the Co- 
lonial style, trimmed with light brick, and with a portico, 
supported by Ionic pillars. The main building is one hun- 
dred and twenty-seven by forty-nine feet, and there is an 
ell forty-seven by thirty-four feet which joins the building 
on the north side. Foss Hall is essentially the home of the 
women of the College, for it contains accommodations, in 
well-appointed and attractive rooms, for seventy-five stu- 
dents; a large dining hall, with a seating capacity of two 
hundred, a reading-room and library, parlor, and 



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spacious lobbies; the 
offices of the dean 
and of the resident 
physician and director 
of physical training in 
the Women's Division; 
a gymnasium, which is 
located in the base- 
ment; and an assem- 
bly hall on the third 
floor, where the chapel 
services for the women 
are held each day at 
fully equipped with a 




PALMER HOUSE 



noon. The building is also 
kitchen, pantry, serving-room, 
storage-rooms, steam-heating plant, and all necessary com- 
forts of the most modern type for the convenience of its 
residents. At the right of the main entrance there is placed 
in the wall a bronze tablet, which is thus inscribed: — 



THIS BUILDING IS THE GIFT OF 

ELIZA ADALINE FOSS DEXTER 

DAUGHTER OF PHINEHAS FOSS 

OF WAYNE HILL, MAINE. 



The Palmer House, a smaller dormitory with accommo- 
dations for thirty students, stands on the same side of Col- 
lege Avenue, at the corner of Getchell Street, just a half- 
block below Foss Hall, and is in charge of a resident 
matron. 



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The President's Home is located on College Avenue, 
opposite Foss Hall, and is a large brick double house. 

ADMINISTRATION 

Admission. Candidates for admission must offer studies 
amounting to a total of twenty-six points. . For the A.B. 
Course, twenty of these points are required, and include the 
following subjects: English, Latin, Algebra, Plane Geom- 
etry, and History. 
The remaining six 
points may be selected 
from a list of nine 
elective subjects. For 
the B.S. Course, eleven 
points are required, 
including English, Al- 
gebra, Plane and 
Solid Geometry; 
and the remainino- fif- 
teen points may be elected from fourteen other subjects. 
Admission by Certificate. Graduates from the Colby 
fitting-schools and from other academies and high schools 
whose courses of study have been approved by the Faculty 
of the College are admitted on certificates properly filled out 
and indorsed by the principal of the school, certifying that 
all the college requirements have been satisfactorily fulfilled. 
Detailed information concerning the admission require- 
ments and the amount of work stipulated in each course 
is given in the Catalogue of the College, which will be sent 
to any one requesting a copy. 

Courses. The College offers two degrees, Bachelor of 




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Arts and Bachelor of Science, and the course of study re- 
quired of candidates for either degree is four years in length. 
Indeed, there is no distinction, so far as election of studies 
is concerned, between the two courses, except in the Fresh- 
man year. In the latter year the work is arranged in 
nine groups, six in the A.B. and three in the B.S. Course. 
The main distinction is the omission of Latin from the B.S. 
group. 

Required Courses in the A.B. Group: Latin, French, 
Mathematics, Reading, Books and Libraries. Electives are 
selected from Greek, German, French, and Physics. 

Required Courses in the B.S. Group: Mathematics, Ger- 
man, French, Commercial Geography, Physics, Reading, 
Books and Libraries. Electives are chosen from German, 
French, and Biology. 

The work of the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years 
is arranged in three groups: 

A. Language and Literature. 

B. History, Economics, and Philosophy. 

C. Mathematics, the Physical and Natural Sciences. 
In the Sophomore year all students are required to take 

courses in German, Rhetoric, and Physics; and the B.S. 
students must take Chemistry, in addition. The remain- 
ing courses of the Sophomore year, together with all the 
courses of the Junior and Senior years, are elective. In 
the Sophomore year, students must take a total of five 
courses each term; in the Junior year, likewise five courses; 
and in the Senior year, four courses. Almost all of them are 
three period courses. 

The number of electives beyond the Freshman year is 
ninety-eight, and includes, besides advanced courses in the 

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Studies already mentioned, courses in History, Politics, Eco- 
nomics, Spanish, English Literature, Philosophy, Astron- 
omy, Physical Geography, Geology, Mineralogy, Philology, 
Debating, and Mechanical Drawing, the two latter being 
new courses added to the curriculum for the first time dur- 
ing the current year. 

This condition, however, is imposed upon the elections 




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of Students in the last three years of the college course; 
that is, that two years must be elected in the Language and 
Literature Group (A), one year in History and Philosophy 
(B), and one year in Mathematics and Natural Science (C). 
The Tuition charges are ^60 a year and incidentals. 
Good table board may be obtained in the city for ^3 per 
week and upwards. This applies to the Men's Division. 
Students of the Women's Division of the College whose 
homes are outside of Waterville are expected to room and 
board in the women's buildings. 



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Scholarships and Prizes. The income of ^90,000 is de- 
voted to scholarships, which are awarded to worthy stu- 
dents needing aid, providing certain conditions are met 
and an average rank of not less than 70 per cent, is main- 
tained. A number of prizes for excellence in scholarship 
in various departments are awarded each year. A list of 
these is found in the Catalogue, together with the names 
of the recipients of such honors. 

Terms and Vacations. The academic year is divided 
into three terms of thirteen, eleven, and thirteen weeks, re- 
spectively, separat- 
ed by the summer 
vacation of twelve 
weeks, the Christ- 
mas recess of two 
weeks, and the 
spring recess of two 
weeks, coming us- 
ually in the neigh- 
borhood of the 1st 
of April. 

Commenc e m e n t 
Day occurs on the 
last Wednesday in 
June, concluding the closing exercises of the year, which 
begin on the preceding Saturday evening. 

Advisory System. Colby has the advantages of the best 
of the smaller colleges in that close personal relations are 
estabUshed and cultivated between instructors and students; 
for they frequently meet outside of the class-room in a so- 
cial way and for individual conferences, and the machinery 




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of the administration is gauged to foster this relation. The 
advisory system, which was adopted in 1901, has proven 
very successful. Each student has an adviser, appointed 
from the Faculty, to whom he may freely go to consult 
about his work or any of the routine matters of college 
life, and through whom he may appeal to the Faculty on 
occasion, and who, in turn, feels a personal responsibility 
for the intellectual and moral welfare of the student so 
assigned. 

Further, this same spirit of co-operation is seen in the 
membership and conduct of the Boards of Conference, 
which have a wholesome influence upon college discipline 

in both divisions of the College. 
Again, in the Athletic Association 
and in the Board of Management 
of the Echo, the college paper, as 
well as in other activities, we find 
the same helpful association of 
representatives of Faculty and stu- 
dents, with the result that these 
activities are much better managed, 
more successfully financed, and 
conducted with more esprit de corps 
than ever before. 

The Religious Life of the College 
is pronounced and wholesome, as 
attested by the activity of the 
Young Men's Christian Association 
and the Young Women's Christian 
Association, and the interest of the 
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these organizations, as well as their interest in the various 
classes organized for the study of the Bible and of Missions. 

Daily chapel worship is conducted in the College Chapel 
for the Men's Division at the noon hour, led by the Presi- 
dent, who is occasionally assisted by members of the Faculty 
and others; and at the same hour for the Women's Di- 
vision in the Assembly Room of Foss Hall, the exercises 
being led by the Dean. 

Phi Beta Kappa. Colby is proud of the possession of a 
Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Beta of Maine, 
the charter having been granted in 1895, and, in spite of 
the severe Hmitations of high scholarship imposed upon the 
election of members, the roll of the Chapter is a large and 
distinguished one, and numbers two hundred and seventy- 
three alumni and alumnae. Further information about 
this is found in the Handbook of the Chapter. 

Art Collections. Besides the casts, portraits, and paint- 
ings in Memorial Hall, already mentioned, the College 
possesses the Warren Collection of four hundred large 
photographs, illustrating the history of ancient and modern 
art. Through the kindness of a recent donor, many new 
portraits and reproductions of works of art, appropriately 
framed, have been added to the walls of the college build- 
ings, and have served to quicken the enthusiasm of the 
students and the academic atmosphere of the college. 

Public Lectures. The College is frequently favored with 
public lectures by men eminent in the various fields of 
letters, science, and philosophy; and permanent provision 
has recently been made, as announced in the Catalogue for 
1906-07, for an annual and permanent addition to these 
intellectual treats of the college year. 

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College Publications. These include the Annual Cata- 
logue, published in January, containing the calendar of 
academic events, registration of students and officers, and 
complete information as to courses and government and 
other matters; the President's Report, the Treasurer's 
Report, the Address Book, and minor publications from 
time to time. 

The students' publications include the Echo, a four-page 
paper, published weekly by the Echo Board; and the 
Oracle, the College Annual, published by the Oracle Asso- 
ciation, in the spring term. 

OTHER INTERESTS. 

Incidental Advantages. There is a good deal besides 
what goes on in the class-room and laboratory in the make-up 
of college life. Of great service to the social and fraternal 
life of the students is the organization of societies. There 
are eight of these at present at Colby, five Fraternities and 
three Sororities. The Fraternities are as follows: the Delta 
Kappa Epsilon, established in 1846; the Zeta Psi, 1850; 
the Delta Upsilon, 1852; the Phi Delta Theta, 1884; and 
the Alpha Tau Omega, 1892. Two of these organizations, 
the Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Phi Delta Theta Frater- 
nities, have Chapter Houses, and in these well-ordered and 
attractive homes the best side of the social life of the College 
is fostered. At present plans are under way for providing 
permanent homes on the College Campus for the other 
fraternities. 

The Sororities are as follows: the Sigma Kappa, estab- 
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Beta Chapter of Chi Omega in 1906; and the Alpha Up- 
silon, estabhshed in 1904. 

The Athletic Interests of the College are cared for by the 
Colby Athletic Association, which through the agency of 
an Executive Committee of fifteen (three from the Faculty, 
three from the alumni, and nine from the undergraduates) 
directs the interests of football, baseball, basketball, tennis, 

and track athletics, 
and manages and 
finances the public 
contests. This sys- 
tem has proved its 
w^isdom in bringing 
athletics under w^ise 
direction and regu- 
lation, and in keep- 
ing out the objection- 
able features and ele- 
m e n t s of f o r m e r 
years. 
The students also successfully maintain musical organi- 
zations, including Glee and Mandolin Clubs, a Dramatic 
Club, which presents an annual play in the college year, 
and the Debating Society. 

The non-society girls have organized a club known as 
the Hypatia Club, and the Women's Division ot the Col- 
lege has organized the Dexter Club, tor literary and social 
pursuits, and this organization meets Saturday evenings for 
lectures, musicales, and the discussion of current events. 

Three years ago there was established a Rally Day for 
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festivities of the day are celebrated in the latter part of 
October each year. 

Endeared to the College not alone by close association 
in religious activity, but because it is a place hallowed in 
the traditions of the College, is the First Baptist Church 
of Waterville. This building is used for the holding of 
Commencement exercises and the various other events of 
the collegiate calendar, including the Sophomore Declama- 
tion and the Junior and Senior Exhibitions. 

An adjunct of no little value to the College is the re- 
cently established Carnegie Library, located on Elm Street, 
opposite the Public Park. This library, which occupies a 
handsome new building, the gift of the philanthropist, 
Andrew Carnegie, was opened in 
May, 1905. The volumes on its 
shelves number seven thousand. The 
building also provides a home for the 
library and collections of the Water- 
ville Historical Society. 

The College has four academies in 
the State which are affiliated with it and whose conduct 
is under the general direction of its Board of Trustees. 
They are as follows: Hebron Academy at Hebron, estab- 
lished in 1804; Coburn Classical Institute at Waterville, 
1829; Higgins Classical Institute at Charleston, 1837; 
and Ricker Classical Institute at Houlton, 1848. 

Interest in Colby and her welfare is stimulated and spread 
abroad by her Alumni and Alumnae Associations, of which 
the College is pardonably proud. They are as follows: 
the General Alumni Association, which meets in Water- 
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Association; the New York Colby Alumni Association; 
and the Colby Club of Waterville. 

The alumnae have organized the Colby Alumnae Asso- 
ciation, which holds its annual meeting Commencement 
week, and the Boston Colby Alumnae Association. 




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